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Forgotten : narratives of age-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease in Canada /
A groundbreaking comparison of scientific, popular, and literary approaches to provoke new stories of dementia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A forgotten history : the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century construction of the disease concept
- The rise of the asylum in Ontario and Its impact on Canadian families
- Popular perceptions of aging and dementia in Canada : the theory of waste and repair from the 1860s to the 1960s
- From psychological and stress-based theories of dementia to the triumph of the biomedical paradigm
- A narrative view of deinstitutionalization : Alice Munro's "Powers"
- Tale of two brothers: Andrew Ignatieff and the rise of the Alzheimer Society of Canada
- Gothic and apocalyptic horror: Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue
- A history of forgetting : cognitive decline and historical cycles of degeneration
- Unburying the living in Jane Rule's Memory Board and selected stories by Alice Munro.